In recent years, the study of heat to work conversion has been re-invigorated by
nanotechnology. Steady-state devices do this conversion without any macroscopic moving …

In this review we focus on electronic transport through semiconductor nanostructures which
are driven by ac fields. Along the review we describe the available experimental information …

How localized electrons interact with delocalized electrons is a central question to many
problems in sold-state physics,,. The simplest manifestation of this situation is the Kondo …

A tunable Kondo effect has been realized in small quantum dots. A dot can be switched from
a Kondo system to a non-Kondo system as the number of electrons on the dot is changed …

This review seeks to extend the scope of both the experimental and theoreticalwork carried
out since I completed my 1993 review on the electronic, optical, andto a lesser extent, the …

The ongoing miniaturization of solid state devices often leads to the question:“How small
can we make resistors, transistors, etc., without changing the way they work?” The question …

The aim of this work is to establish an exact quantum dissipation theory QDT, with which
various quantum transport properties could in principle be evaluated without …

In this article, we review the state of the art on the transport properties of quantum dot
systems connected to superconducting and normal electrodes. The review is mainly focused …

A real-time path-integral Monte Carlo approach is developed to study the dynamics in a
many-body quantum system coupled to a phonon background until reaching a …

We review recent experimental and theoretical work on ultrasmall metallic grains, ie grains
sufficiently small that the conduction electron energy spectrum becomes discrete. The …